[Intro]

Sometimes I like to go back

You can call me sentimental if you want but

It's just how I'm built

[Verse 1]

On the corner summer hotter than a mix plate

Me and Lou was makin' mixtapes at his place

Gameboys with the big face, north Dade on the border

Madie Ives on a kids case

I was only like 9 back then

I ain't really want to get the shit grades

But math was not my thing, I like the music though

That a boy, show interests in the things you like

Fight through what you can't avoid

And so I did that, Choc milk with the Kit Kats

Pop dipped in a tilt cap

After him my mom had a split crack, but

We kept in touch we visit him for like a couple months

Up out the year we fly to NY, just a couple runts

Flyin' all alone the chaperone would watch us from the front

I know it sounds complicated but

It was all that we knew

[Chorus]

We used to play, used to play

Back when I was just a little heathen

Momma used to say, used to say

Don't you be out there where I can't see ya

It was simple back then

We was packed in to a little half den

Back before this life had even tried to crack in

Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend

It was simple back then, yeah uh

It was simple back then, yeah hmm

Simple back then, yeah uh

It was simple back then, yeah

It was simple back then

[Verse 2]

In the fifth grade

I was duckin' under lift gates

Bumpin' Snoop in my discman

Talking to the girl with thick braids

Fam moved us to Hollywood

New kids, new schooling now

Didn't know not a single soul

I was nervous they would never cool it down, but

I skated in, I made some friends

Hey mama look at me

Nobody's dissin' on my thrift gear

Or my crooked teeth

I thought I fell in love a couple times

Well I was young and dumb

We broke into the old abandoned cinema for summer fun

I was still drug free

Learnin' to love me

Learnin' to stand up as a man

And grow to run, see

Them days were some scene

We stayed above sea

Learning to navigate the waves

Cause it was all that we knew

[Chorus]

We used to play, used to play

Back when I was just a little heathen

Momma used to say, used to say

Don't you be out there where I can't see ya

It was simple back then

We was packed in to a little half den

Back before this life had even tried to crack in

Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend

It was simple back then, yeah uh

It was simple back then, yeah hmm

Simple back then, yeah uh

It was simple back then, yeah

It was simple back then

It was simple back then

It was simple back then

It was simple back then